It’s been a long time since French manufacturer Peugeot produced a class-leading new car.
Certainly
it has not happened this decade, and arguably it came nowhere particularly
close to the summit of any segment in the previous one, either.
Peugeot's recent small family car history gets more
interesting the further back you go. The previous 308 was
essentially a modernised 307, which itself was a generally overweight, mostly
underpowered box of mediocrity.
The
306 that came before it lies closest to the 205 in our retrospective Peugeot
affections, but that it was ancestrally spawned from the 309, which was
originally destined for a Talbot badge as a successor to the Horizon, beggars
belief.
Acknowledging that it must up its game in order to
compete in any market beyond a notoriously supportive domestic scene, the
manufacturer has brought a number of all-new models out to bat (208, 2008 and so on), but our praise has
usually been measured, at best: good for a Peugeot, we’ve opined, but not great
all over.
With
the new 308 Now, the French car maker is convinced that it has leapfrogged the
market’s most popular and most estimable family hatchbacks and delivered the
surefire hit that has thus far been so elusive.
The
carried-over badge isn’t a spectacular omen – the previous 308 was hardly
memorable – but its replacement, bolstered by a new platform, is credited with
being lighter, leaner, cleverer (particularly inside) and much more fun to
drive.
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